Software Engineering Jobs in the North West

Software Engineering
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Software Engineering skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Engineering over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 24 12
Rank change year-on-year +11 -12 +5
Permanent jobs citing Software Engineering 943 796 1,212
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 9.76% 9.92% 12.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.73% 10.35% 13.46%
Number of salaries quoted 727 464 673
10th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,750 £51,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.04% +8.18%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £86,250 £88,375 £85,000
England median annual salary £62,500 £72,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year -13.79% +3.57% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Software Engineering is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,037 7,688 9,007
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.22% 95.76% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6,125 3,977 5,396
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.03%
75th Percentile £65,603 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Software Engineering
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Software Engineering as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Software Engineering in the North West.

Salary trend for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Software Engineering in the North West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Software Engineering in the North West

Software Engineering
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Engineering within the North West region over the 6 months to 24 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +8 657 £60,000 -4.00% 136
Cheshire +34 136 £60,000 -22.58% 20
Lancashire +17 74 £50,000 +5.26% 16
Merseyside +3 72 £60,000 -27.27% 9
Cumbria -24 2 £65,000 +85.71% 4
Software Engineering
England

Software Engineering
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 71 (7.53%) ArcGIS
2 57 (6.04%) GeoServer
3 24 (2.55%) Apache Spark
4 12 (1.27%) Apache
5 6 (0.64%) SharePoint
6 5 (0.53%) JBoss
6 5 (0.53%) Red Hat Fuse
7 4 (0.42%) Captiva
7 4 (0.42%) FileNet
7 4 (0.42%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.21%) CMS
9 1 (0.11%) Apache Solr
9 1 (0.11%) Jetty
9 1 (0.11%) nginx
9 1 (0.11%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 2 (0.21%) Adobe XD
1 2 (0.21%) AutoCAD
1 2 (0.21%) Sketch
2 1 (0.11%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 9 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 9 (0.95%) Magento
2 3 (0.32%) Dynamics AX
3 2 (0.21%) Infor M3
4 1 (0.11%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 247 (26.19%) AWS
2 240 (25.45%) Azure
3 56 (5.94%) GCP
4 44 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
5 42 (4.45%) Serverless
6 37 (3.92%) SaaS
7 34 (3.61%) GitHub
8 33 (3.50%) Dynamics 365
9 20 (2.12%) AWS Lambda
10 16 (1.70%) Amazon S3
11 15 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
11 15 (1.59%) OpenShift
11 15 (1.59%) Power Platform
12 14 (1.48%) Amazon EKS
12 14 (1.48%) Amazon Kinesis
13 13 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (1.27%) IaaS
14 12 (1.27%) PaaS
15 9 (0.95%) Google Kubernetes Engine
16 8 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (1.70%) RS-232
2 11 (1.17%) AMQP
2 11 (1.17%) Ethernet
3 9 (0.95%) Firewall
3 9 (0.95%) MQTT
4 7 (0.74%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (0.53%) ZigBee
6 4 (0.42%) HTTP
6 4 (0.42%) Wireless
7 3 (0.32%) Bluetooth
7 3 (0.32%) Network Security
8 2 (0.21%) RS-485
9 1 (0.11%) Internet
9 1 (0.11%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (9.76%) PostgreSQL
2 76 (8.06%) GIS
3 63 (6.68%) MySQL
4 57 (6.04%) QGIS
5 39 (4.14%) Relational Database
6 37 (3.92%) SQL Server
7 26 (2.76%) Big Data
7 26 (2.76%) MongoDB
8 21 (2.23%) RDBMS
9 20 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
9 20 (2.12%) NoSQL
10 17 (1.80%) Geospatial Data
11 15 (1.59%) Hadoop
12 13 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
12 13 (1.38%) Amazon Redshift
13 11 (1.17%) Cloudera CDH
13 11 (1.17%) OLAP
14 7 (0.74%) DynamoDB
14 7 (0.74%) Redis
15 6 (0.64%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 103 (10.92%) Git
2 36 (3.82%) Jenkins
3 22 (2.33%) JIRA
4 19 (2.01%) GitLab
5 15 (1.59%) Postman
6 14 (1.48%) Subversion
6 14 (1.48%) Visual Studio
7 11 (1.17%) Spinnaker
8 10 (1.06%) IntelliJ
9 9 (0.95%) Cypress.io
9 9 (0.95%) LabVIEW
9 9 (0.95%) Maven
10 7 (0.74%) SonarQube
10 7 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (0.64%) JDeveloper
11 6 (0.64%) JUnit
11 6 (0.64%) webpack
12 5 (0.53%) Cucumber
12 5 (0.53%) InstallShield
12 5 (0.53%) Mockito
General
1 109 (11.56%) Social Skills
2 78 (8.27%) Finance
3 41 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (4.14%) Banking
5 33 (3.50%) Electronics
6 31 (3.29%) Retail
7 29 (3.08%) Automotive
8 22 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 20 (2.12%) Law
10 18 (1.91%) Tech for Good
11 16 (1.70%) Public Sector
12 15 (1.59%) Health Technology
12 15 (1.59%) Legal
13 12 (1.27%) Aerospace
14 11 (1.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 8 (0.85%) Games
15 8 (0.85%) Marketing
16 5 (0.53%) Retail Finance
17 4 (0.42%) Advertising
17 4 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 564 (59.81%) Software Engineer
2 283 (30.01%) Senior
3 197 (20.89%) Senior Software Engineer
4 160 (16.97%) Developer
5 95 (10.07%) Lead
6 72 (7.64%) Embedded Engineer
7 71 (7.53%) Embedded Software Engineer
8 56 (5.94%) Java Engineer
9 49 (5.20%) Java Software Engineer
10 41 (4.35%) Architect
11 37 (3.92%) Full Stack Engineer
11 37 (3.92%) Software Developer
12 35 (3.71%) Technical Leader
13 31 (3.29%) Senior Developer
14 30 (3.18%) Senior Embedded Engineer
14 30 (3.18%) Software Manager
15 29 (3.08%) .NET Developer
15 29 (3.08%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
16 27 (2.86%) Lead Software Engineer
17 26 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 207 (21.95%) .NET
2 180 (19.09%) React
3 115 (12.20%) CSS
4 93 (9.86%) .NET Core
5 82 (8.70%) Node.js
6 75 (7.95%) HTML
7 67 (7.10%) Spring
8 65 (6.89%) PostGIS
9 61 (6.47%) AngularJS
9 61 (6.47%) Leaflet
9 61 (6.47%) OpenLayers
10 49 (5.20%) RESTful
11 45 (4.77%) Spring Boot
12 36 (3.82%) REST
13 32 (3.39%) JSON
14 28 (2.97%) Kafka
15 24 (2.55%) Vue
16 23 (2.44%) ASP.NET
17 20 (2.12%) RabbitMQ
17 20 (2.12%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 48 (5.09%) IoT
2 38 (4.03%) Cloud Native
3 31 (3.29%) Greenfield Project
4 22 (2.33%) Embedded Systems
5 19 (2.01%) Distributed Systems
6 17 (1.80%) Product Ownership
7 14 (1.48%) Management Information System
8 12 (1.27%) Algorithms
8 12 (1.27%) Private Cloud
9 11 (1.17%) Virtual Team
10 10 (1.06%) Device Driver
11 8 (0.85%) FMCG
11 8 (0.85%) Public Cloud
12 6 (0.64%) Data Structures
12 6 (0.64%) Legacy Applications
12 6 (0.64%) NHS
13 5 (0.53%) Client/Server
13 5 (0.53%) Enterprise Software
13 5 (0.53%) Life Science
13 5 (0.53%) Smart Energy
Operating Systems
1 143 (15.16%) Linux
2 43 (4.56%) Windows
3 20 (2.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 19 (2.01%) Ubuntu
5 16 (1.70%) Embedded Linux
6 11 (1.17%) CentOS
6 11 (1.17%) Debian
7 8 (0.85%) Mac OS
7 8 (0.85%) Unix
8 5 (0.53%) FreeRTOS
9 4 (0.42%) Android
10 3 (0.32%) Apple iOS
10 3 (0.32%) VMS
11 2 (0.21%) FreeBSD
11 2 (0.21%) Mac OS X
12 1 (0.11%) HPUX
12 1 (0.11%) Solaris
12 1 (0.11%) ThreadX
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (39.77%) Agile
2 231 (24.50%) DevOps
3 134 (14.21%) Problem-Solving
4 112 (11.88%) Computer Science
5 100 (10.60%) Full Stack Development
6 97 (10.29%) CI/CD
6 97 (10.29%) Mentoring
7 91 (9.65%) Microservices
8 88 (9.33%) Actionable Insight
9 87 (9.23%) Open Source
10 80 (8.48%) TDD
11 74 (7.85%) Web Development
12 62 (6.57%) Scrum
13 61 (6.47%) Design Patterns
13 61 (6.47%) SDLC
14 57 (6.04%) Continuous Integration
15 54 (5.73%) Coaching
16 52 (5.51%) Containerisation
17 51 (5.41%) Infrastructure as Code
18 48 (5.09%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 226 (23.97%) JavaScript
2 223 (23.65%) Java
3 221 (23.44%) Python
4 220 (23.33%) C#
5 111 (11.77%) SQL
6 95 (10.07%) C
7 80 (8.48%) TypeScript
8 69 (7.32%) C++
9 41 (4.35%) PHP
10 32 (3.39%) Go
11 23 (2.44%) Rust
12 19 (2.01%) Embedded C
13 14 (1.48%) Bash
14 11 (1.17%) Ruby
15 10 (1.06%) COBOL
15 10 (1.06%) Micro Focus COBOL
16 8 (0.85%) Kotlin
16 8 (0.85%) Perl
17 6 (0.64%) Scala
18 5 (0.53%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 149 (15.80%) Degree
2 115 (12.20%) Security Cleared
3 103 (10.92%) SC Cleared
4 48 (5.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (1.80%) DV Cleared
6 11 (1.17%) Master's Degree
6 11 (1.17%) PhD
7 6 (0.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (0.64%) OCP
7 6 (0.64%) Oracle Certification
8 5 (0.53%) HND
9 4 (0.42%) Chartered Engineer
10 3 (0.32%) Azure Certification
10 3 (0.32%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.21%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.21%) HNC
11 2 (0.21%) TOGAF Certification
12 1 (0.11%) MCSE
12 1 (0.11%) OSCE
12 1 (0.11%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (1.27%) QA
2 10 (1.06%) Accessibility
3 7 (0.74%) ISO 9000
4 5 (0.53%) GDPR
5 4 (0.42%) PMO
6 3 (0.32%) SLA
7 1 (0.11%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.11%) ISO 13485
System Software
1 68 (7.21%) Docker
2 25 (2.65%) Firmware
3 11 (1.17%) Embedded Firmware
4 2 (0.21%) IAG
5 1 (0.11%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 79 (8.38%) Kubernetes
2 69 (7.32%) Terraform
3 29 (3.08%) Ansible
4 11 (1.17%) Puppet
5 10 (1.06%) Progress Chef
6 3 (0.32%) Podman
7 2 (0.21%) Grafana
7 2 (0.21%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.11%) Kiali
8 1 (0.11%) Kibana
8 1 (0.11%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (6.89%) ESRI
2 51 (5.41%) Microsoft
3 27 (2.86%) Oracle
4 21 (2.23%) Red Hat
5 16 (1.70%) Google
6 13 (1.38%) F5
7 11 (1.17%) SaltStack
8 10 (1.06%) Micro Focus
9 9 (0.95%) Confluent
10 6 (0.64%) EMC
10 6 (0.64%) IBM
11 5 (0.53%) Atlassian
11 5 (0.53%) SAP
12 4 (0.42%) Cadence
12 4 (0.42%) Kofax
12 4 (0.42%) Pega
12 4 (0.42%) ServiceNow
12 4 (0.42%) Synopsys
13 3 (0.32%) Autodesk
13 3 (0.32%) Xamarin